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forgotten idols and their intertwined destinies

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Jalendu Temple was one of the only places that didn’t really matter if it was occupied or not. They took refuge there, moving back down to the south in waiting for Adhrit’s instructions to regroup.

The temple was destroyed, but many of its foundations still served to become good housing for just the night. As the cold winds wrapped around their bodies it took Bhadra all the strength she had not to fall asleep.

There wasn’t anything waiting for her there.

Instead she looked into the moon and how it reflected onto the waters, how the bay was rippling in warm and white lights that gave the illusion of coziness. As she sat by the shore, she was convinced it would make for a nice swim if it weren’t for the demon fish lurking below.

Still, the first time Sabal took her here, it was just so that he could introduce her to the duties of the Tarun Matara, having to bond with priests and whatnot were key to making life easier there, but her stomach felt full, thinking about it.

Bonding with priests was just another phrase for something else.

And it made Bhadra want to throw up.

“Hey,” Divin greeted, sitting next to her with a beer bottle in hand. “You want a drink too?”

“No, I’m fine,” she lied, eying the bottle before meeting his eyes. “Divin?”

“Hm?”

“What do you think of the Tarun Matara?”

Divin tilted his head. His mouth twitched to the side of his cheek, looking away as he continued to think about Bhadra’s question.

“We haven’t had one for a long time. Why?” he asked.

“Nothing. Just something to pass the time,” Bhadra said, waving her hand freely. “I’m surprised. Back in my time we used to have one even if Pagan Min outlawed religion.”

“Well,” Divin shrugged, “that was before. Tradition is tradition, but my mother used to tell me about how scary it was to be picked.”

“Oh?” Bhadra raised a brow. Divin nodded.

“Did you know anything about her?” he asked. Bhadra resisted the urge to stiffen. “I was too young to remember her.” he added. Bhadra thought for a moment, and then asked:

“How old are you, Divin?”

“Twenty-two.” Divin grinned. Bhadra’s eyes widened.

“Oh, Kyra, I’m old.” Bhadra said with a sigh. Divin looked concerned.

“How old are you?”

“Thirty two.”

“Oh—” and Divin burst out laughing. “That’s not old!”

“Compared to you? Definitely!” Bhadra quipped, lightly punching him in the shoulder. “No, but really, if we had a Tarun Matara now, at this time, what would your thoughts be?”

Divin blinked. He took a sip from his drink and hugged his knees. “Honestly? Maybe it wouldn’t be suited for someone very young to just be a goddess. But if it was someone responsible who could lead our people, I wouldn’t mind.”

“Hm…” Bhadra hummed.

“Why? What about you?”

“I…” She thought back to Sabal. She thought back to the hands that used to reach out and grab her, after the fires.

She thought about the priests that looked at her. The people who told her that she was meant to be something, more than just herself.

Maybe she really did need to drink.

“I just don’t think it’s right. Maybe that’s one of the good things outlawing religion did. I don’t know.” Bhadra looked back at Divin. “I suspect you’re following something more modern?”

“Well… our culture still means something to us, doesn’t it? But so does change. Adhrit believes in a future where we could have both, and we’d be heroes for this country.”

“Does he?” Bhadra said. Divin nodded.

“How old is he?”

“Twenty five.”

Bhadra looked at him in disbelief. “I really am old, Divin.”

It was silent for a moment, and then: “Sakshi, how long has it been since you started fighting the army?”

“I started when I was nineteen.”

“And I was just a child!” Divin placed his hand on her shoulder, “We’re the same, Sakshi, no matter how old you get, we fight for Kyrat! It’s okay to feel old, but it just makes me sad for how long we’ve been fighting.”

“Yeah,” Bhadra replied. “Are you tired yet?”

“No. I won’t rest until Kyrat is free.”

Bhadra saw something innocent in those eyes, when she looked back at him. He was as determined as she used to be, ready to fight anybody who stood in her way as she messed with the royal guards for years.

But she would be lying if that wasn’t what she was limited to. The decision to kill Ajay was made off of years of debate and attachment, the thought of being abandoned by the one you loved the most was as painful as having to think about strangling them in real time.

She was tired, she hated to admit.

This war had been all her life with no stop in sight. With Diego in tow, things would be harder. Ajay made it harder. It was an invitation to come back to him, to embrace him, and it would be so easy if she could just beg for the country to be free and have it.

But she wouldn’t give Ajay the satisfaction. This country belonged to her, not him.

It didn’t belong to Diego, but he was here, doing whatever he wanted for whatever reason that Bhadra needed to know— fuck.

She gritted her teeth.

Bastards. All of them. Bastards.

But if she wanted to continue playing this game, she’d have to continue doing what she was doing. Play to Diego’s weaknesses.

She had to think about Diego.

Diego, Diego, Diego.

“Are you okay, Sakshi?” Divin’s voice rang through her ears like it chimed into an empty skull. She realized then, she was in the passenger seat of a car that he was driving, all the way towards the mainland where they were supposed to capture another outpost.

She hadn’t slept that night. Her head was going to throb later, but she could take it. There were more important things than sleep.

If Diego was going to lay out some traps, she had to think ahead even further, and that was going to become a challenge.

Her radio chimed.

“Buenos días.” Diego greeted her. “I take it you’ve been waiting for us, hm?”

“I think it’s the other way around.” Bhadra replied, “come on, Diego, life would be so much easier if we didn’t have you here.”

“But you like a challenge, no? I hear from prisoners how much of a killer you are. I’m impressed because they are not wrong.”

“Prisoners stop lying once you get them to confess.” Bhadra said, “What do you really want, Diego? This poor, war-torn country is far from where you belong.”

“I want to help erase terroristas like you from becoming a nuisance in this country’s connections. I’ve done it once, I can do it again.”

“Is it really terrorism if we just want to live?”

“You chose not to live the moment you decided to fight.”

Bhadra slammed her fist against the window. Divin jumped in his seat, tilting his head back.

“Sakshi…? Who are you talking to?” he asked.

“Sorry, Divin. Nobody important.” she said.

“Is that how it is? I’m hurt.” Diego snarked.

“Better be.” Bhadra gritted her teeth and turned off the radio. Divin’s buzzed.

“Truck coming at your twelve, Divin!”

“What?!” Divin exclaimed.

“You heard her!” Bhadra raised her voice, getting up to the car’s gun. “Get on it, Divin!”

The truck was fast— whoever was manning it was about to pummel right into the car if it weren’t for Divin yelping and spinning the car around. She shot at it, bullets cracking the windows until the truck had finally swerved off the road and crashed.

But then as they turned, three more FND cars were coming their way, all shooting into one direction. As Bhadra shot after them, the gun jammed and she slammed her fist against it.

“Harame!” She shouted, taking her rifle with her and hopping onto the roof.

“Sakshi, what are you doing?!” Divin cried out.

“Just keep driving, Divin, I’ll be fine!” she shouted, and just as the first car neared her she jumped off their car and onto the next, landing on the roof. Bullet holes started to form, and she stood up and shot through the driver’s seat, the passenger’s and then the back, making the car swerve and push into the second car.

She shot into the window, right before losing her balance and slipping onto the roof, saved by her hand clinging onto the edge. Bhadra reached for a grenade in her belt, took the pin by her teeth and tossed it to the third.

It exploded, setting off a chain as it collided with the second. Bhadra rolled off and stumbled into the dirt, getting up and bleeding from her forehead.

“Still alive?” Diego’s voice came onto the radio.

“Yes.” Bhadra bit out.

“Bueno.” Diego mused, but before Bhadra could react she felt a bullet hit her arm and a couple more whizz past her head. Spinning around, she couldn’t find a source, but she could find a river and sprinted to it, diving down as her blood started to unite with the water.

She didn’t see the royal hunter swimming up and grabbing her. The hunter hooked his arm right around her neck, pulling her deeper into the waters as she screamed, pulling away from the grip, trying to shoot blindly.

Kicking and elbowing, a knife cut into her arm, deep enough for it to stick. She took the chance to rip it out and cut into the arm still around her throat. As the hunter let go, she shoved the knife right into his neck, then swam upwards and gasped for breath.

She swam to the shore and threw up the water, watching as her blood began to drip from her head and her arms, the adrenaline still preventing her from feeling the pain.

“Sakshi, where are you?!” Divin called from the radio.

“By the waters, Divin! Come meet me here!” She panted out, shivering. She scrambled for leaves big enough to wrap around her arms, all the while watching for bullets firing her way, to no avail.

“FND started to raid the logging camp outpost! Somebody help!” Another call from the radio. Bhadra gritted her teeth and scrambled upwards, only to be shot again into her shoulder and sent running.

“On my way!” she shouted into the radio. She heard the skidding of a car and was prepared to fight, only to find Divin opening the passenger’s seat.

“You’re bleeding!” Divin cried out, scrambling to the backseat to find a first aid kit.

“HURRY UP TO THE OUTPOST!” Bhadra yelled, holding down her wound, making Divin wince before he turned the car to their destination.

All the while, her radio was chiming for her name.

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The Strange Idol [analysis]

A compilation of what we know and what we can speculate about the old “Strange Idol”.

[This post belongs to the series “Analysis and speculation of Statues”]

This is a mysterious statue that has appeared in DA2 and DAI in different contexts. In DA2, we find it in three places: The Harimann’s house basement, atop of the Sundermount, and inside Dumat’s Temple. Its resemblance in style [shape of limbs, decoration, lines, material] to the Red Idol is worth noting. I already wrote an extensive post about “DA2: The Strange Idol” but I wanted to make a summary here with brief speculations supported by the knowledge of the recent published comics. To understand the context of the idol in DA2 in detail, I suggest reading that post. As I always repeat, DA lore adds a lot when you have the context in which it appears [and also helps you not to go deep into wild theories].

Where do we find this statue in DA games?

It appears for the first time in Merril’s Quest [read Merril and the Eluvian], inside a cave atop of the Sundermount.

In Sebastian’s Quest, placed in the Basement of Harimann’s mansion which turned out to be an ancient Tevinter Ruin. Thanks to Tevinter Nights book we know that having buildings undergrounf was/is a Tevinter costume that keeps existing in Mintharous. We also know that Kirkwall, historically, has a lot of ruins and chambers below the city itself. This allowed Tevinter mages to do forbidden research or unsafe magic or have cult activities without the authorities’ knowledge.

In a humble temple deep into the Deep Roads, at the base of the tower-prison where Corypheus is held.

It also appears several times in the Black Emporium of DA2, behind and over the mirror of transformation.

It appears in a cave that you have access by following the Old Chantry Trail Sign, in Western Approach. In there, we learn it’s warm to the touch and has a pulse.

His face appears in some walls along Din'an Hanin, and it’s the central statue in the Elandrin’s Tomb.

Its face appears in the mural the “Removal of the Vallaslin”, located in Elven Mountain Ruins , Forgotten Sanctuary

The raw information

So far, details that are worth noticing about this idol:

It has many limbs: two legs and four arms. Other multi-limbered creatures in DA universe are Varterrals [ read DLC: Witch Hunt and The Missing for more varterral’s information], some demons like the envy one, Xenon [ owner of the Black Emporium], and some creatures related to elvhenan paintings [read Nation Art: Elvhen] which in some instance may or may not be related to The Horror of Hormak [Personal Speculation].

Its face is monkey-like or a bit toad-like. Its mouth is open, its eyes a bit squinted. For this reason, it can be related to Elgar’nan through the codex Vir Dirthara: Signs of Victory, [“narrowed eyes and its open, snarling mouth”] which was analysed in the post Ancient Elven codices; Vir Dirthara.

Its chest and stomach have swirls. One can associate swirls all over the games with lyrium or, in DAI, with Veilfire/Fade and elvhenan gods [the dragon statue that represents Myhtal as well as the howling wolf statue that represents Fen’harel both have swirls along their body]. For more details on this aspect, read the section “Spirals and branching lines as Fade, magic, and lyrium” in the post Murals in DAI: Basics

Its limbs have long carvings, like canals, from which something red can be seen. Given the context of being perceived as Dumat, or as Elgar’nan who may have accepted blood from his defeated enemies [as his codices imply a ruthless, violent, dominant behaviour], one can suspect it is dried blood drips. It’s very subtle, but the red lines in them have been present in both designs [in DA2 and DAI, in DAI it looks even more like blood]. We also know that the Elvhenan performed blood magic and it’s highly likely that blood magic was originally from Arlathan [hints of this info in Tarohne, the Fell Grimoire, and Xebenkeck]. So, there are several hints that show that elvhenan know how to bind spirits and how to use blood magic.

In Sebastian’s quest, this idol appears in an underground Tevinter ruin, and has a [desire] demon bind to it.

In Merril’s quest, this idol appears inside Elvhen ruins and has a pride demon bind to it. However, given the context, the statue can be Elven or Tevinter, since the battle of Sundermount caused that both sides would “unleash horrors” in the Waking World [the codex is not too reliable, though, since it speaks of a legend, and it’s “recent history” related to Arlathan; details in Sundermount as an elven graveyard]. We also know that a lot of knowledge about Arlathan has been lost or modified due to time and elven mortality, but we also know that these elves were deeply related to blood magic. If we add the binding culture that Elvhenan had according to DAI [for example, read Ancient Elven codices; The Lost Temple of Dirthamen, and The Lost Temple of Dirthamen - Part 2] we can suspect that this demon was bind to this statue for either faction [with defensive purposes if elven or as a gesture of dominance if Tevinter]. Not necessarily it has to be Tevinter-made. What I mean is that we have enough context to know that this may have been Tevinter or Elvhenan doing. In fact, one can speculate that maybe the original knowledge was Elvhenan and Tevinter just took it as its own as it has always done with elvhenan magical knowledge.

In Merril’s quest, Felandaris appears close to this statue, suggesting that the Veil is very thin in the area [this plant only grows around places where the veil is thin and demon presence is expected].

In DA2, this idol is usually close to strange dragon-skull totems that, due to the lack of codex, is impossible to associate with Tevinter or Elvhenan. In DAI they are used in the ramparts of Exalted Plains, seen as structures that hold barriers around pits where dead arise. So they seem to be related to [demon/undead] summoning rituals that, so far we know in lore, may be Tevinter or Elvhenan alike.

In DA2:DLC Legacy, we find this idol too, but deep into the Deep Roads, at the bottom of Corypheus’ tower-prison in a small structure that has an “altar of Dumat”. Four plates are placed there, where you have to put four items found along the DLC: a sacrificial dagger, a crown, a ritual scroll, and a sacred Urn. If you give the items, a reward is given [chain of the penitent]. If you defile the altar instead, you will fight some shades, which gives us the idea that this idol is related to demons and/or blood magic, thinning the Veil around it [shades are usually the standard shape that demons take when enter the waking world without possessing living creatures].

In DAI, it appears in a cave of Western Approach where you can place your landmark, and it’s called “The Thing in the Dark” [details in Western Approach: Old Chantry Trail Signs]. The small message we get in it is “This statue is oddly warm to the touch and shivers slightly, as though it might have a pulse”. In DA2, Merril could feel something in the statue when the demon was bind to it, so this warm shivering effect may be the concept that some spirit/demon is bind to it. Let’s remember that in DAI we found a lot of things that are warm to the touch and have some pulse/shiver/angry feeling to it that may imply a spirit attached to it [read The Taken Shape set for a list of details about warm, pulsing objects]

In DAI, curiously, his face appears in some walls along Din'an Hanin, which is expected since his main tomb is underground of that ruin, but it also appears in the lower section of the mural “Removal of the Vallaslin” in the ancient elven ruins of Fen’Harel. One of these faces appears as the source of Veilfire.

Design-wise may have some distant similarities with Korth, the Father-mountain of the Avvar, which has [dragon?] horns.

Speculation section

Similarities with the red lyrium idol

When we find similarities between this statue and the red lyrium idol, I’m not saying they are the same, but they may have similar functions in ancient rituals. Among the similarities, we can notice that figures have carvings along the body.

May the red lines inside the carvings of the Strange Idol not be blood but inactivated red lyrium?

Why would I say this? The Red lyrium idol has shown, specially in the comic Dark Fortress, to look like a piece of wood [as if it were inactivated red lyrium] unless I’ve been understading it too wrongly [the scholar even suspects that the idol, once consumed into the creation of a sword for the Red Wraith, has been rendered useless, and its drawing looks more like a piece of wood/metal than a “red glowing crystal”]. Only in some places we see it red. This visual fact always confused me in DA series. We clearly see that the object is not entirely made of red lyrium, only some parts [specially the roots] look like it. Why so many characters insist in saying it’s completely made of red lyrium?

If we remember, the cinematics in Dragon Age Official Teaser Trailer - 2018 Game Awards shows that the idol glows only along some lines, as if the red lyrium is activating from within its metal/wood material. Which is similar to the red lines we see in the Strange Idol, but in a dormant way. We also know that Red Lyrium sounds angry and feels warm [check the red lyrium section in Songs and elements that sing and whisper in DA Lore]. Since the Strange Idol is warm to the touch too [according to DAI in Western Approach: Old Chantry Trail Signs] and has these red lines barely seen, could it be related to inactivated red lyrium? I really don’t know what to think about it since we know so little about the red lyrium idol [and I suspect it has been retconned a couple of times even along DA2].

Design wise, the red lyrium idol always looked to me like wood+metal, and only its lower part is made of red lyrium, as if it were roots, implying from a design-point-of-view the metaphor that the horror represented in the figure is “fed” on red lyrium [details and speculations in Red Lyrium Idol ].

Pros and cons of certain speculations related to the Strange Idol:

Speculation 1: “This statue is Elgar’nan”

PRO

Its face coincides with the codex Vir Dirthara: Signs of Victory, which describes Elgar’nan with “ narrowed eyes and its open, snarling mouth”. The general shape of the Strange Idol may look like a mountain, as it is said in the codex that Elgar’nan statue was made of stone as big as a mountain [metaphorically implying how he defeated Titans and created monuments of himself on or with the corpse of his enemies].

It makes sense for it to appear in the Bastion of Elgar’nan in Emerald Graves: Din'an Hanin, Elandrin’s Tomb as central icon of the tomb of knights that defended elvhen, considering that Elgar’nan is perceived along the codices as a big leader during the Titan war.

It makes sense for it to be in the Sundermount cave, since we can speculate it was a statue used to bind a demon by the elvhen resisting the war against Tevinter. Let’s remember that Elgar’nan was always related to victory and wars against the Titans in the oldest codices we find about him [read Elgar’nan section in Evanuris].

CONS

If this is an elvhen god/Evanuris, I hardly see it worshipped by Tevinter, who allways had an ancient, deep rejection to elves. It would make no sense to use Elgar’nan as a representation of Dumat either [not consciously, at least]. So it makes no sense for this statue to appear in the Altar of Dumat close to the Corypheus’ prison as well as in Sebastian’s quest, in an underground Tevinter ruin.

It doesn’t have any visual similarity to Elgar’nan mosaic, which displays a bestial arm with claws. There is no similar hint of bestiality in the case of the Strange Idol [read Elgar’nan section in Evanuris]. However, this is not a strong counterargument: we can say the same of Mythal, who has two representations, one as an elf in a mosaic, and another as a dragon [in mosaic and statues too]. Read Mythal section in Evanuris for further details.

Neither con not pro: I can’t speculate why Elgar’nan would appear in the mural of “Removal of the Vallaslin” at the Elven Mountain Ruins, Forgotten Sanctuary. Specially if we think that the previous corridor towards this mural doesn’t have any mosaic of Elgar’nan either. I also can’t explain or speculate why the Forgotten Sanctuary, a place to give shelter to slaves, would have images of the Evanuris on its walls, the ones supporting the slavery system of the moment.

This face, if it is truly Elgar’nan’s, is also presented as a source of Veilfire which can be related to Titans through the mural “The Death of a Titan”, where the source of Veilfire is presented in the heart of the Titan. Linking both symbols, one can suspect that maybe Elgar’nan’s victory over the Titans granted him the power of exceptional magic [divinity?], represented in these murals as the source of this particular green fire.

Speculation 2: “This statue is Dumat”

PRO:

It makes sense to appear close to Corypheus’ prison in an altar to Dumat or in the underground Tevinter ruins from Sebastian’s quest.

It makes sense to appear in Sundermount, so we can assume it was a symbol of dominance from Tevinter when they attacked the resisting elves in this place. They bind a demon there too, and this brings no conflict with the lore; we know Tevinter always had a deep knowledge of binding and using demons in their favour.

CONS:

It makes no sense for Dumat to appear in the Bastion of Elgar’nan in Emerald Graves: Din'an Hanin, Elandrin’s Tomb. If it would have appeared in the first part of the zone, where we find statues of Andraste as the codex of Emerald Knights upgrades, it would have been considered an assimilation from former slaves, but this statue appears in a central position in a tomb that has been sealed long ago, surrounded by many statues of Mythal in her dragon shape.

Besides, why would Dumat appear in the mural of “Removal of the Vallaslin” at the Elven Mountain Ruins, Forgotten Sanctuary? So far we know the “Tevinter” perspective of the Old Gods appeared long time after the Elvhen and the Evanuris, so it’s hardly a contemporaneous concept to the ancient Elvhenan Gods.

Dumat, understood as the Old God perceived by Tevinter, is a Dragon in shape. Its will may be something else, though, that may be represented in this toad-like figure?.

Speculation 3: “This statue is an ancient god [maybe a Forgotten One?] worshipped by the Evanuris before claiming divinity, and Tevinter adopted it later, believing them as Dragons or The Old Gods”.

PROS:

This concept makes sense in both scenarios, Tevinter and Elvhenan. Like I said in the lore sections of the posts related to the comics The Silent Grove, Those Who Speak, Until We Sleep, Magekiller, and The Missing; there are some hints that make us speculate that Evanuris worshipped great dragons originally [that may or may not result in the Forgotten Ones]. Mythal should have been one of them as she is a dragon herself, but they stopped worshipping these ancient gods when they took the “divine winged shape” for themselves, claiming divinity. From that moment on, the Evanuris [at least Andruil] hunt these dragon-gods/Forgotten-Ones down, chasing them to the Void [which is more related to the underground lyrium than to a dimensional pocket ala Crossroads]. Mythal stopped her [ and intentionally or not, we don’t know, she protected these entities] by fighting against Andruil and removing her knowledge of how to reach the Void because in the Void there was “Darkness” and madness that Andruil infected with [for a whole detailed analysis of this, check the codex explanation of “Elven God Andruil” in the post Ancient Elven codices, Temple of Mythal].

In this way, it makes sense for Tevinter to end up using similar iconography, ignoring it was the same god that the Elvhenan venerated originally. Tevinter knows that the Old Gods take the shape of Dragons, but they may be something else entirely.

Under this idea, it makes sense for this idol to appear in Tevinter or Elvhenan environments.

CONS:

There are too few hints to support this hypothesis of Forgotten Ones as the original gods that the Evanuris worshipped until they claimed divinity for themselves, and later Tevinter took them in their dragon shape and established the cult of the Old Gods. Most of the hints pointing out this relationship are recent [in the late comics].

We also have a strange potential relationship between the Forgotten Ones and the Forbidden Ones via the Seekers. It may be a red herring done by the devs or a consequence of “unreliable narrators”. Details in “Tarohne, the Fell Grimoire, and Xebenkeck”.

Another con is that this idol has no shape of a dragon when we know that the Old Gods are always represented as Dragons, and we also suspected from the comics that the Forgotten Ones may be dragons instead of elvhen . We also have another potential link with Hakkon as Geldauran, who may be one of them; for more details, read Elvhen Tomb and Ancient Tevinter presence, Speculation.

Neither con not pro but a detail worth noting: this entity has a shape with a distant resemblance to Korth, the Avvar Mountain-Father god [the mouth shape are alike, and the nostrils of the Strange Idol are similar to the Korth’s nose-eyes]. Korth is the oldest and strongest god of the Avvar pantheon. We know the Avvar have always had a much better understanding of the world due to their deep conection with the spirits, whose wisdom is always shared to the Augur of the tribe. With this I mean that this Strange Idol seems to be a very old entity that even the Avvar perceived, reflected later in the shape of Korth. Korth is related to the Mountain, as Elgar’nan is related to it in a dominant way in the codex Vir Dirthara: Signs of Victory. Elgar’nan’s fury [which destroys everything it touches, according to the codex The Judgment of Mythal or read Elgar’nan section in Evanuris for more details] has some distant similarity to Korth’s cruelty when he lost his heart [read codex The Frostback Mountains] and became a force of anger and destruction. According to the relationships I’ve been trying to connect along this blog, these details seem to me that the same entity has been perceived by Avvar, Tevinters, and Elvhenan, but represented with some differences in order to fit their own purposes [as all DA lore has been showing so far].

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